The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-09-30

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voyance they could sec me, Of all men,
playing such q bloody game. Soon my as
satlants grew faint, and almost ceased to.
struggle, their breath had left them, and
they were dying, but still I dare not leave
them, for they died very slowly. I knew
that If l relaxed my grip, they would re-
vive. The other ruffans probably thought
for we were all three lying in the shadow
of h ledge-that we were alldead togeth-
er. at any rate they did not interfere with
u little tragedy.
I turned my head, and as I lay gasping
in the throes Of that awful struggle I could
see that Leo was off the rock now, for the
lnmplight fell full upon him. He was
still on his feet. but in the center of surg
ing mass of struggling men, who were
striving to pull him down as wolves pull
down u stag. Up above them lowered his
beautiful pale face crowned with its bright
curls for Leo was six feet two high), and
l saw that he was fighting with a desperate
abandonment and energy that was at once
splendid and hideous tobehold. He drove
his knife thro h one man-they were SO
close to him and mixed up with him that
they could not get at him to kill him with
their big spears. and they had no knives
or sticks. The man fell, and then some
how the knife was wrenched from his
hand, leaving him dcfcnseless. and 1
thought the end had conc. But no; witha
desperate effort he broke loose from them,
seized tho body of the man he had just
slain, and, lifting It high in the air, hurled
It right at the mob Of his assailants, SO
TINT the shock and weight of itswept some
five or six more Of them to the earth. But
in n minute they were all up again, except
one, whose skull was smashed, and had
once more fastened upon him. And then
slowly, and with infinite labor and strug-
Cling, the wolves bore the lion down.
Once oven then he recovered himself, and
felled an Amahagger with his fist, but It
was more than NJ could do to hold his
own for long against SO many, and at last
he came crashing do VI upon the rock,
falling as an oak falls, and bearing with
him to the earth allthose who chung about
him. They gripped him by his arms and
legs, and then cleared off his body.
"a spear" cried a voice-s'a spear to cut
his throat, and a vessel to catch his blood"
Ishut my eyes, for Isaw the man coming
with a spear, and myself, I could not stir
to Leo's help, for I was growing weak and
the two men on me were not yet dead, and
a deadly sickness came over me.
Then suddenly there was a disturbance,
and involuntarily 1 opened my eyes again,
and looked toward the scene of murder.
The girl Ustane had suddenly thrown her.
self IN the top Of Leo's PROSTATE form,
covering his body with her body, and fast
ening her arms about his neck. They tried
TO drag her from him, but she twisted her
legs round his, and hung on like a bull
dog, or rather like q creeper to a tree, and
they could not. Then they tried to stab
him in the side without hurting her, but
somehow she shielded him, and he was
only wounded.
Atlast they lost patience.
"Drive the spear through the man and
tho woman together" said a voice, the
Same voice that had asked the questions
at that CHASTITY feast, $50 Of q verify shall
they DO we'd"
Then I saw the man with the weapon
strajghten himself for the effort I saw
the cold steel CLEAN on high, and once
more I shut my eyes.
As I did SOL heard a voice Of q man
thunder out in tones that rang and echoed
down the rocky ways
sCcaser"
Then 1 tainted, and as I did 80 It flashed
through my darkening mind that I wa.
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